All things Racist...USA edition (3 Viewers)

[Farb]

I was looking for a place to put this so we could discuss but didn't really find a place that worked so I created this thread so we can all place articles, experiences, videos and examples of racism in the USA.

This is one that happened this week. The lady even called and filed a complaint on the officer. This officer also chose to wear the body cam (apparently, LA doesn't require this yet). This exchange wasn't necessarily racist IMO until she started with the "mexican racist...you will never be white, like you want" garbage. That is when it turned racist IMO

All the murderer and other insults, I think are just a by product of CRT and ACAB rhetoric that is very common on the radical left and sadly is being brought to mainstream in this country.

Another point that I think is worth mentioning is she is a teacher and the sense of entitlement she feels is mind blowing.

https://news.yahoo.com/black-teacher-berates-latino-la-221235341.html

 

[SaintForLife]

This is classic gaslighting. It’s a pathological symptom where you take something you clearly did and try to accuse others of doing that. It’s a sign of a sick society.

There is only one person responsible for the failure to approve routine promotions. Nobody else had anything to do with it.

How I can accuse someone else of something I did when I wasn't involved in the situation?

It's clear that the Biden Administration thought that paying for travel for abortion was more important than that military readiness.

Also, nobody prevented them from holding regular votes on the nominees. They wanted to do voice votes to make it quicker. Tuberville's holds only prevented the voice votes and not regular voting.

 

[MT15]

How I can accuse someone else of something I did when I wasn't involved in the situation?

It's clear that the Biden Administration thought that paying for travel for abortion was more important than that military readiness.

Also, nobody prevented them from holding regular votes on the nominees. They wanted to do voice votes to make it quicker. Tuberville's holds only prevented the voice votes and not regular voting.

False, he blocked some of the regular votes as well, after he promised he wouldn’t.

When you repeat the lie that the Biden Administration is responsible for failing to advance these promotions, you are repeating gaslighting. It’s a sick argument.

The military reimburses for travel for any healthcare that a soldier needs but cannot obtain where they are stationed. You evidently think that women soldiers should be singled out and not have their travel expenses reimbursed, while the military still reimburses men who have to travel for healthcare. That is what Tuberville was demanding. Not going along with that stupid idea, which would immediately be challenged in court, was the correct decision by the DOD.

Turning around and then saying the Administration is responsible for Tuberville’s actions is classic gaslighting. You just participated in it. Congrats.

 

[bird]

How I can accuse someone else of something I did when I wasn't involved in the situation?

It's clear that the Biden Administration thought that paying for travel for abortion was more important than that military readiness.

Also, nobody prevented them from holding regular votes on the nominees. They wanted to do voice votes to make it quicker. Tuberville's holds only prevented the voice votes and not regular voting.

No, it is clear Tuberville is an idiot. The military takes care of the soldiers. I am sorry you hate the military.

 

[Optimus Prime]

An Arkansas man has continued his work as a professional Santa Claus to promote diversity, three years after receiving a racist note for displaying a Black Santa Claus statue in his yard.

Chris Kennedy, of North Little Rock, Arkansas, is currently in his third year as a professional Santa Claus. He attends both local and out-of-state events as “Santa Chris”.

What once started as a rebuttal to a racist note about his diverse Christmas decorations has now grown into a bonafide, seasonal business that continues to thrive.

Kennedy first began dressing up as Santa Claus in 2021, a year after receiving a bigoted note about a Black Santa inflatable that Kennedy had placed outside his home. He said that he and his wife, Iddy, intentionally displayed the Christmas decoration to include Black representation for their seven-year-old daughter.

“Even in fictional characters like Santa, Black kids need to see themselves reflected,” Kennedy said, adding that traditional media still struggles with diversity.

In response, Kennedy received a racist letter, demanding that the Black Santa statue be removed. The anonymous note accused Kennedy of “trying to deceive kids into believing that Santa was Black”, he said.

Furious, Kennedy posted about the incident on Facebook. News of the note quickly went viral.

Kennedy’s neighbors immediately put up Black Santas in their own yards as a show of support. Some even travelled to neighboring states to purchase Black Santas after the decorations sold out locally.

But in the aftermath of the racist note, Kennedy also decided to become a professional Santa Claus – despite having only previously dressed as the character for family.

“We [wanted to] send the message that not only are we not taking our decorations down, but now [I was] going to be Santa Claus,” Kennedy said.

Kennedy emphasized that one of the most empowering parts of embodying Santa is bringing more diverse representation to others, specifically other Black people.

“The Black kids that see Santa being Black love it and freak out,” Kennedy said. “[The older Black people] will tell you they’ve never seen a Black Santa. So they’re super happy.”…….

Undeterred by racist incident, a Black Santa brings cheer to Arkansas

Chris Kennedy got a note in 2020 criticizing his Black Santa display and decided to embody the spirit of Christmas in return

www.theguardian.com

 

[BullSheetBuddha]

................... Why are they traveling from state to another?

Why do any of us travel from state to state? Multiple reasons.

 

[superchuck500]

An Arkansas man has continued his work as a professional Santa Claus to promote diversity, three years after receiving a racist note for displaying a Black Santa Claus statue in his yard.

Chris Kennedy, of North Little Rock, Arkansas, is currently in his third year as a professional Santa Claus. He attends both local and out-of-state events as “Santa Chris”.

What once started as a rebuttal to a racist note about his diverse Christmas decorations has now grown into a bonafide, seasonal business that continues to thrive.

Kennedy first began dressing up as Santa Claus in 2021, a year after receiving a bigoted note about a Black Santa inflatable that Kennedy had placed outside his home. He said that he and his wife, Iddy, intentionally displayed the Christmas decoration to include Black representation for their seven-year-old daughter.

“Even in fictional characters like Santa, Black kids need to see themselves reflected,” Kennedy said, adding that traditional media still struggles with diversity.

In response, Kennedy received a racist letter, demanding that the Black Santa statue be removed. The anonymous note accused Kennedy of “trying to deceive kids into believing that Santa was Black”, he said.

Furious, Kennedy posted about the incident on Facebook. News of the note quickly went viral.

Kennedy’s neighbors immediately put up Black Santas in their own yards as a show of support. Some even travelled to neighboring states to purchase Black Santas after the decorations sold out locally.

But in the aftermath of the racist note, Kennedy also decided to become a professional Santa Claus – despite having only previously dressed as the character for family.

“We [wanted to] send the message that not only are we not taking our decorations down, but now [I was] going to be Santa Claus,” Kennedy said.

Kennedy emphasized that one of the most empowering parts of embodying Santa is bringing more diverse representation to others, specifically other Black people.

“The Black kids that see Santa being Black love it and freak out,” Kennedy said. “[The older Black people] will tell you they’ve never seen a Black Santa. So they’re super happy.”…….

Undeterred by racist incident, a Black Santa brings cheer to Arkansas

Chris Kennedy got a note in 2020 criticizing his Black Santa display and decided to embody the spirit of Christmas in return

www.theguardian.com

I’m with my sister in law and my two nephews for Christmas. They are 11 and 9 and my two girls are 10 and 9. My SIL bought the boys some Christmas pajamas and she didn’t notice that one - with a bunch of little Santa heads on them - had black Santas. She said she sort of giggled and shrugged it off, nothing wrong with black Santas on Christmas pajamas.

The kids didn’t notice either, he wore them all day on Christmas and three nights in a row, and nobody said anything about black Santa. Kids don’t intrinsically care about race or about black Santa, that concern originates entirely with the racist parents. Trying to claim racial ownership of a make-believe character who is supposed to be about the spreading of joy to children is not only some next-level racist shirt, but it’s so wildly selfish. I guess racism is fundamentally a selfish response but let your racism tinge your Christmas season while also teaching your kids to be racist is quite something.

 

[Optimus Prime]

The national conversation on racism seems to be stuck in an endless loop. We all know the routine: a public debate is sparked by a news story that features a case of alleged bigotry. It might be reports that an Asian cricketer was nicknamed “Bomber”; or that a member of the royal family is said to have questioned a baby’s skin colour.

Whatever it is, the inciting incident then sets the parameters of all the discussion to follow. An array of loud and angry voices appears on media panel shows or radio phone-ins, suggesting what might or might not have occurred (no one knows for certain), and whether or not any of it is racist (everyone is certain that it either is, or it isn’t).

And so, instead of the nuances of racial inequality being understood, the issue is portrayed as a simple matter of people saying or doing bad things to each other, and we get a tiresome to and fro between those “playing the race card” and others “in denial”.

Many of us just tune out, while the overall issue of racism in society – a real problem in need of an urgent solution – remains unaddressed.

That is why, six years ago, the Reframing Raceinitiative was set up. It is an attempt to fix this broken debate. We have spoken to 20,000 people in England and Scotland, testing more than a dozen ways of talking about racism.

With our unprecedented bank of data, we now dare to answer the question: what actually works to change the conversation?

We discovered – plainly – that words make a difference. New ways of talking about racism lead to new ways of listening.

The first problem we found was that people don’t agree on what the basic facts mean. For instance, “black people are stopped and searched at seven times the rate of white people”: some will believe this indicates a racist bias in policing; others will simply say it’s a sign of criminality in the black population.

It is therefore important to tell the full story, which is that the over-representation of black people in the criminal justice system does not imply they are more inclined to commit crime.

Instead, the data reveals a complex social structure – involving prejudice in the justice system, poverty, school exclusion and insecure housing – that stacks the odds against black people.

This explanation is not as eye-catching as the headline statistic, but we did find one particularly effective way to communicate the problem of racism: namely, a CV investigation that showed recruiters were biased in favour of white applicants.

In telling the full story of this study, we were able to rule out any explanations other than race-based discrimination.

Choosing to represent structural racism in this way allows a mainstream audience to see it for themselves, and leads the discussion away from the “Is it racist?” ping-pong game.

And where facts don’t work, sometimes metaphors do. We discovered that using the image of a birdcage to represent a racist system that traps some people inside was powerful.

Everyone can understand the way in which each bar of a cage combines to deny freedom and opportunities. The birdcage metaphor also appeals to people’s values, rather than their logic. Unlike stop-and- search statistics, the concept of freedom is universally understood and agreed on……..

How to have a meaningful debate about racism? We asked 20,000 people, and this is what we found | Nina Kelly

The conversation is stuck: you’re either ‘playing the race card’ or ‘in denial’. But here’s a way to break through

www.theguardian.com

 

[superchuck500]

So in 2023 a key candidate for president was asked a question about the cause of the Civil War and not only did she recite the tired old repackaging of the war as about a system of government (states rights without saying it) she didn’t even mention slavery.

This is not a serious alternative to MAGA.

Nikki Haley Fails To Mention Slavery When Asked About Cause Of Civil War

A New Hampshire voter told the GOP presidential candidate, "it’s astonishing to me that you answer that question without mentioning the word slavery.”

www.huffpost.com

 

[superchuck500]

So in 2023 a key candidate for president was asked a question about the cause of the Civil War and not only did she recite the tired old repackaging of the war as about a system of government (states rights without saying it) she didn’t even mention slavery.

This is not a serious alternative to MAGA.

Nikki Haley Fails To Mention Slavery When Asked About Cause Of Civil War

A New Hampshire voter told the GOP presidential candidate, "it’s astonishing to me that you answer that question without mentioning the word slavery.”

www.huffpost.com

lol - “that’s the easy part”

 

[Optimus Prime]

lol - “that’s the easy part”

 

[MT15]

lol - “that’s the easy part”

It was so easy that she ran away from saying it.

And now she is whining that the questioner was a Democratic plant. I truly didn’t think she could make it worse, but she did.

 

[MT15]

I love Sarah Longwell.

 

[Optimus Prime]

What exactly was the plan?

PLANT: what was the cause of the civil war?

HALEY: Slavery

Now what?

Reminds me of Katie Couric’s gotcha question for Sarah Palin

“What newspapers and magazines do you read?”

(After Palin said she reads a lot of newspapers and magazines)

 

[MT15]

Huh, the consequences of their actions came home to roost. Good!

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

No, it is clear Tuberville is an idiot. The military takes care of the soldiers. I am sorry you hate the military.

what Tuberville did is 100x more disrespectful to the military than what the right accused Kaepernick of.

 

[DaveXA]

what Tuberville did is 100x more disrespectful to the military than what the right accused Kaepernick of.

Easily. And fwiw, what Kaep had an issue with was police injustices. The kneeling was for that. Had nothing to do with the military.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Easily. And fwiw, what Kaep had an issue with was police injustices. The kneeling was for that. Had nothing to do with the military.

We all know that, but the far right accused him of spitting in the face of everyone who has ever served and everyone who loves America

 

[DaveXA]

We all know that, but the far right accused him of spitting in the face of everyone who has ever served and everyone who loves America

Agreed. The issue was messaging. Kneeling during the anthem made it easy for people to think he was insulting the military, because you know how at sporting events, they usually have a military branch in uniform march out and display the flag. So I get why people conflate it. But if they actually did their homework they'd know why he was kneeling.

Kaep got a raw deal, both on the field and off. Sometimes that happens when you put yourself out there.